In keeping with the somewhat irreverent spirit of The Princeton Review - the test prep company that maintains that the only thing the SAT measures is how well you take the SAT - the campus life categories in The 373 Best Colleges are sometimes opinionated, as the sampling below should indicate.
The Princeton Review's high and low points of collegiate life
Campus life
Happiest students: Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Least happy students: Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
Most beautiful campus: Sewanee – The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
Least beautiful campus: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
Dorms like palaces: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Dorms like dungeons: Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala.
Best campus food: Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.
Is it food?: United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.
Party school: University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Stone cold sober: Brigham Young University
Most politically active: American University, Washington
Election? What election?: Salisbury University, Salisbury, Md.
Most liberal students: Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.
Most conservative students: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smoking vegetarians: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, Calif.
Jock school: Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.
Dodgeball target: Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Off-campus life
Great college town: Columbia University and Barnard College, New York
College town not so great: Tuskegee University
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For rankings of more schools in all categories, visit The Princeton Review's website.
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